Chapter 154.2
An Junw.a.n.g said in a warm voice, "I was pa.s.sing by, so I stopped by to pick you up while I’m at it. Have you finished your cla.s.ses today?"
"Yes, our cla.s.ses are over." Zhuang Yuexi came up and answered.
She didn"t give her guqin to the servant girl to carry. Seeing that she looked tired, An Junw.a.n.g held out his hands and said, "Give it to me."
Zhuang Yuexi smiled and gave her guqin to his brother.
To reach for the guqin, An Junw.a.n.g had to pull his arm out of Zhuang Mengdie"s hold.
Zhuang Yuexi was very satisfied seeing this.
After taking over the guqin, An Junw.a.n.g didn"t hurry to take his two younger sisters into the carriage, but instead looked left and right, seemingly waiting for someone else to come out.
Zhuang Yuexi asked, "Big brother, who are you looking for?"
An Junw.a.n.g replied normally, "I heard that Young Miss Gu also attends the women’s academy."
Zhuang Mengdie suddenly pouted her mouth and said, "You mean that Gu Jinyu? I hate her to death! Why does big brother concern himself with her?"
Zhuang Yuexi also looked at An Junw.a.n.g with doubt.
An Junw.a.n.g looked at Zhuang Mengdie and smiled gently, saying, "Isn"t she your friend? I was just asking."
Zhuang Mengdie scoffed and responded, "I don"t have a friend like her!"
"Is she the only one from the Gu Family who came to school?" An Junw.a.n.g asked.
Zhuang Mengdie said with a harrumphed, "Who else is there? How could that other girl who grew up in the countryside get an admission card?"
Zhuang Yuexi said, "How did you get it then?"
Zhuang Mengdie choked up. Could this sister of hers stop undermining her all the time?
An Junw.a.n.g became thoughtful. Could it be... she sold the admission card he gave her to Zhuang Mengdie?
What An Junw.a.n.g didn"t know was that his admission card was sold by Gu Jiao to Du Xiaoyun, and the admission card of Zhuang Mengdie was the one Marquis Gu got from Imperial Concubine Shu.
On the second floor of the music hall, Gu Jinyu pushed open the window of the room and accidentally saw An Junw.a.n.g, who came to pick up his two younger sisters from school.
Gu Jinyu"s heart leapt in an instant.
She hadn’t seen him for so many days, and An Junw.a.n.g seemed to have become more handsome, his aura more mighty.
Why was he looking around? Who was he looking for?
Was it herself?
Gu Jinyu"s heart beat harder and faster.
Then, she vaguely heard Zhuang Mengdie say, ‘You mean that Gu Jinyu. I hate her to death. Why does big brother concern himself with her?’
Gu Jinyu"s breathing became rapid.
An Junw.a.n.g was concerned about her.
He didn"t come here to pick up his younger sisters; he came to see her! [T/N: Delusional.]
Gu Jinyu quickly put away the guqin in her hands, went to the tea room to put some rouge, rearranged the hairpins on her head, and then went downstairs to see An Junw.a.n.g.
Unfortunately, An Junw.a.n.g was already gone.
However, it turned out that it was Zhuang Mengdie who inadvertently said, "That girl is working as a medicine girl in the medical hall next door. I saw her that day," and so, An Junw.a.n.g went to the medical hall.
It was just that An Junw.a.n.g also pounced on empty air.
Gu Jiao couldn"t stand the sound of guqin behind the courtyard wall, so she left work early!
At the moment, the four men in the family hadn’t finished school yet. Gu Jiao first went to the kitchen to stew some soup. The soup was halfway done when Grannie Fang arrived.
"Not good, eldest young miss. Madame has some strange thing on her body! Please go and take a look!"
Gu Jiao reduced the fire in the stove, keeping the soup in the pot warm, and then took a carriage with Grannie Fang to the Marquis Estate.
When Yao shi saw Gu Jiao, she scolded Grannie Fang again, "I said I"m fine. You don"t have to go to JiaoJiao for everything."
"It"s always good to be careful." Gu Jiao said and went up to Yao shi. She said after checking, "It"s eczema. It"s alright. Just apply some medicine on it."
Yao shi looked at Grannie Fang, saying, "I told you I was fine, see? You’re just making a fuss."
Grannie Fang heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Once bitten, twice shy. Is it not because this servant is afraid of something bad happening to Madame again?"
Concubine Ling had been restless since she was seized of power. She frequently visited the courtyards of Gu Chengfeng and Gu Chenglin, making her presence felt as well establishing a fond impression in front of the two brothers, so that the two brothers wanted to drive Yao shi out of the estate these days.
Instead of taking action herself, Concubine Ling planned to borrow someone else’s knife to deal with her.
Grannie Fang had been keeping an eye on Concubine Ling, but she feared it was simply impossible to guard against her every action.
Gu Jiao took a box of eczema cream from the medicine chest and gave it to Yao shi, "If you have any problems in the future, please tell me in time."
Caution was the parent of safety.
She didn’t mind making more trips.
Grannie Fang sent Gu Jiao into the carriage.
Gu Jiao returned to Bishui Alley.
The elderly woman asked, "Is your mother okay?"
Gu Jiao answered, "She"s fine."
Yao shi was really fine, but what Gu Jiao didn"t expect was that something would happen to her younger brothers.
The first one who showed symptoms was Little Jing Kong.
Little Jing Kong didn"t have a good appet.i.te at dinner. Gu Jiao touched his forehead. He didn"t have a fever and she just told him to go to bed early.
People slept until midnight when Little Jing Kong suddenly woke Xiao Liulang up.
Xiao Liulang looked at him curiously and asked, "What"s the matter?"
He sat on the bed and said with a serious face, "I"m so itchy."
Xiao Liulang lit an oil lamp, lifted his clothes and took a look at his body. He found several transparent blisters on his arms and stomach.
Xiao Liulang tucked him in and called Gu Jiao over.
After checking, Gu Jiao made a diagnosis on the spot, "Chickenpox."
Xiao Liulang frowned, "You mean… pox disease?"
Gu Jiao nodded, "Well, you can also say that."
Little Jing Kong was in very good health. He had never been sick since he went down the mountain. Who knew the moment he did, it was chickenpox.
Although chickenpox wasn’t as terrible as smallpox, it wasn’t so easy to cure.
"Chickenpox is contagious. Did you ever have it as a child?" Gu Jiao asked Xiao Liulang.
"I did." Xiao Liulang responded.
He also got this pox disease when he was about the same age as Little Jing Kong.
"What about you?" Xiao Liulang looked at Gu Jiao.
"I think I’ve had it too." Gu Jiao searched her mind for the memory of the original owner. She got chickenpox before the death of Gu Sanlang and his wife. Because she was well taken care of, she ultimately recovered.
"Xiaoshun doesn"t seem to have had it." She added.
Chickenpox was an infectious disease, so it was best not to touch Little Jing Kong if they hadn"t had chickenpox yet.
"What about Grandaunt? Did she have it too?" Gu Jiao asked Xiao Liulang.
This question was a little interesting.
The elderly woman was just a leper who they had conveniently rescued. She had amnesia and couldn’t remember the past. How could Xiao Liulang know if she had ever had chickenpox?
Unless, of course, she had already decided in her mind that Xiao Liulang had known the elderly woman for a long time.
Xiao Liulang didn"t ask if she knew anything, and didn"t deliberately change the subject either. He only said calmly, "I don"t know."
He really didn’t know.
Gu Jiao pondered for a moment and thought it was normal. For example, she didn"t know what diseases Old Mister Gu had before.
She said, "Well, just to be on the safe side, let Grandaunt be careful."
Later, the chickenpox also rushed to Little Jing Kong’s face like a torrent, and the next morning, Gu Xiaoshun and Gu Yan were also infected.
[T/N: This is tomorrow"s update, I posted it in advance since I have plans tomorrow and might not be able to update.]